Washington DC

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/84120

All 40,000 hours of Jan 6th video should be released to the public.

This destruction of human rights involves politicians, law enforcement, prosecutors. Public defenders, prison guards, judged, media, etc.

Now it is time to lock them all up

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/83358

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/83357

The video is extremely graphic and shows police attempting to revive Rosanne Boyland. There are about 30-40 officers and EMS personnel in the video.

This was after police prevented Trump supporters from saving Rosanne and after Officer Lila Morris beat Rosanne numerous times with a stick.

Some things I noticed:

• At 2:28:41 – police personnel said she had no pulse.
• At 2:29:34 – you can see she’s laying on the dirty Capitol tunnel floor with trash like water bottles laying around.

The BOMBSHELL is at 2:35:00

• One police officer says “Where did she come from? Protestor.”
• Officer Jeffery Leslie: “She got stuck under there. She fell down.”
• Officer: “Trampled?”
• Officer Leslie “Yeah.”

If only this was a joke

Lovely

The city decriminalized fare evasion four years ago after a growing outcry over fines being levied against black residents. In the time since, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) reports it has lost $40 million every year due to riders not paying fares

In short, it give a jury trial for anyone charged with a misdemeanor, eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences except for first-degree murder, and expands the ability of people serving prison sentences to petition a judge for early release.

Other serious crimes that will have lesser penalties include burglary, robbery, carjacking, and illegally carrying a gun.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/55349

The complaint by George Washington University's John Banzhaf says he's filed more than 100 successful complaints under the D.C. Human Rights Act, which does not require complainants to be "aggrieved" themselves and offers damages and attorney's fees for violations.

The D.C. law does not require a "place of public accommodation" to maintain a "physical location in the District" or even charge for its services, if it provides them to a person in D.C. That covers Google, which also "maintains a massive and expensive physical lobbying presence in the District," according to the complaint.

Crucially, the law also does not require complainants to show discriminatory intent. The statute prohibits "any practice which has the effect or consequence" of discrimination, which means even "a completely unexpected result of the programming and/or system design" can trigger liability, the complaint says.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/52394

At least six states — Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan and Minnesota — use modems to transmit results in a combined 36 counties, according to a POLITICO survey. Rhode Island uses them statewide, and Washington, D.C., uses them citywide. Wisconsin, which the nonprofit election integrity group Verified Voting identified as using modem-equipped devices, did not respond to inquiries about whether its counties use the feature.

The modems, which send vote data from precincts to central offices using cellphone networks, help election officials satisfy the public’s demand for rapid results. But putting any networking connection on an election system opens up new ways to attack it that don’t require physical access to machines, and security experts say the risks aren’t worth the rewards.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/50207

“Someone who took the bus from Texas, or was put on the bus from Texas, or wherever, and dropped off at the vice president’s property, and then remained in the District of Columbia for 30 days and was 18 years old — could that person then vote in our local elections?” she asked her fellow councilmembers, who said yes, they could.

A friend asked me last night: “I wonder what would have happened if she smashed that priceless founding-era antique on stage? Would the audience have cared?”

Well, some would have. But the answer in respect of the aggregate is a firm “No.” It is a firm “no” because a crowd that would recognize the tragedy of such a loss is a crowd that would never have tolerated the irreverence of the spectacle in the first place. And that is a much larger problem than whatever Lizzo spat into a microphone Tuesday night.

Lizzo’s real name is Melissa Vivianne Jefferson. The flute she played was a gift to Madison from acclaimed 19th-century Parisian manufacturer Claude Laurent, on the occasion of the fourth president’s second inauguration. Its custodian is the Library of Congress. And of course, her concert took place in the nation’s capital.

So Jefferson played Madison’s flute, from Adams’ library, in Washington’s city. There’s an undeniable poetry to it, it was of the tragic variety.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/47770

The Jan. 6 Committee’s partisan lying about Clark and others is bad enough, but the D.C. Bar’s complicity in this political lawfare proves a more significant affront to our constitutional governance — and more destructive to our country.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/36202

Over 40% of blacks ages 12-17 are not vaccinated, according to city data.

During a press conference, Bowser, a Democrat, admitted there are no alternative options, including virtual learning, for students who cannot attend school due to the District’s vaccine mandate, meaning unvaccinated children will effectively be left without an education.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/32323

The court previously found that Google had breached the Australian Consumer Law by representing to some Android users that a setting titled “Location History” was the only setting that affected whether Google used personally identifiable data about a user’s location.

However, another Google account setting — “Web & App Activity” — also enabled Google to collect, store and use personally identifiable location data, according to Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC.)

And earlier this year, Google was sued by attorneys general in Indiana, Texas, Washington state and Washington, DC over its use of location data.